Mario A. Luna, M.D. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (January 21, 1935 to November 9, 2008)

On Sunday, November 9, 2008, Mario A. Luna, M.D. died in Houston, Texas at 73 years of age. With his passing the general and the head and neck pathology communities have lost a man whose enormous professional achievements were matched only by his humility, compassion, empathy and love of life and his family. Over the past 45 years Mario became a national and international leader in autopsy, infectious disease and head and neck tumor pathologies. He had also mentored, trained and taught several generations of young pathologists worldwide. Indeed, he was an ambassador of education for the institution he loved, M.D. Anderson.